Basic Life Support Part 1
When assessing an adult, child, or infant, you should take no longer than ___ seconds to simultaneously assess breathing and pulse.
10 seconds.
Pale, grey/ashen, sweaty, cool skin and/or blue-tinged lips and nailbeds can be signs of:
Shock (acceptable answers also include "hypoxia," "heart attack," or "internal bleeding.")
An early sign of hypoxia.
Confusion. (Acceptable answers also include "anxiety" and "confusion.")
You are assisting a responsive, breathing associate who has consented to first aid for a spontaneous nosebleed. You should:
Pinch the soft portion of the nose with your thumb and index finger.
Your adult patient is making abnormal gasping, snoring sounds. You definitely feel a carotid pulse. You should:
Provide rescue-breathing or bag-mask ventilation.
Teamwork in high-performance resuscitation requires the use of:
Effective communication.
Shivering and altered mental status. (1/2 credit if answer is partially correct).
The general flow rate for a simple face mask.
6 to 10 liters per minute.
Implied consent usually occurs when:
You are unable to communicate with the person.
A teenager is eating and laughing with his friends when he suddenly begins coughing. Then his coughing stops and he stands, holding his hands to his throat. The scene is safe and you have taken standard precautions. You should:
Provide abdominal thrusts (daily double points if response includes having someone activate EAP).
When ventilating a child experiencing respiratory arrest with a bag-mask device, give 1 breath every __ seconds.
2-3 seconds.
If a person with suspected heat stroke is unresponsive and breathing normally, the most important action a first aid provider can take is to:
Begin immediately cooling with the resources available.
The most vulnerable organ to oxygen deficiency.
The brain.
A Good Samaritan is defined as a person who:
Voluntarily renders aid to another in distress with no duty to do so.
You are providing CPR to a child under 8 years of age when the AED arrives, but there are no child AED pads available. You should:
Use the adult AED pads.
4 BLS providers have been performing CPR on a cardiac arrest patient for 18 minutes. The last switch in roles was only a minute ago, but the compressor says, "I'm exhausted." The team of providers should:
Coordinate to switch out the compressor.
You are assisting a coworker who was sprayed in the face by a corrosive liquid while performing maintenance. You have assessed the scene and taken standard precautions. EMS has been activated. You should flood the face and eyes with water for at least:
15 minutes.
A system used in medical oxygen cylinder valves and regulators to prevent mistaken use of the wrong gas.
Pin-indexing system.
If a person showing signs of shock complains of thirst, you should give them:
Nothing to drink.
You are attempting to relieve a severe airway obstruction in a responsive airway patient. You should:
Use chest thrusts (instead of abdominal thrusts).
This technique may be useful for larger infants or when the BLS provider has difficulty compressing the appropriate depth.
The Heel of One Hand Technique.
You are assisting a coworker who has been impaled in the arm by an iron construction rod. You have assessed the scene, taken standard precautions, and activated the EAP. There is slight external bleeding from around the rod but no other obvious injuries. You should:
Place sterile bulky dressings over the wound and around the object to stabilize it in place.
The appropriate delivery device and flow rate for a responsive or non-responsive person who is breathing adequately and has signs of moderate to severe hypoxia is:
Non-rebreather mask, 12-15 LPM.
The phone number for Poison Control.
The link in the out-of-hospital chain of survival critical to survival that is critical to survival when a patient's heart is in an abnormal rhythm like ventricular fibrilation.
Defibrillation. (AED is acceptable response).